shelf exams question

[xishi]

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How does your performance on the 1st year shelf exams correlate with how well you do on step1? I've been doing avg but what I found interesting was that on the shelf, biochem for example, the highest grade in our entire class was the 86th percentile, for microbio it was 84. Does that seem a bit low? Is this due the fact that our class wasn't prepared very well either through the fault of our school or ourselves for not studying so hard, or am i misjudging these scores?

 

[jdh71]

How does your performance on the 1st year shelf exams correlate with how well you do on step1? I've been doing avg but what I found interesting was that on the shelf, biochem for example, the highest grade in our entire class was the 86th percentile, for microbio it was 84. Does that seem a bit low? Is this due the fact that our class wasn't prepared very well either through the fault of our school or ourselves for not studying so hard, or am i misjudging these scores?

That might be a bit on the low side for top score, but both the biochem and micro shelf are probably the toughest basic science shelfs.

 

[shivasHeroLike]

if you are around the mean in your shelf exams then you can sort of corellate it with what the average medical student gets on the step 1

which is 215-225 i believe